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“Whoa, buddy!” The man with all his working limbs says, bending down in front of Christopher, putting himself between the toddler and the road. “Roads are no fun for babies.”
And Eddie, as stated, already cannot breathe. When he does try to breathe, he’s sucking in burning flames. So it takes a minute to register that the nice man who just saved his baby’s life is - - fuck. Of course. Of course, it’s his hot new neighbor.
Or, Eddie is injured. He also has a toddler. His next door neighbor keeps them alive.
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- Part 3 of Pal's 12 Days of Ficsmas
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Zuko doesn’t mean to start a revolution.
(Or: Iroh is still traveling the Earth Kingdom when Zuko talks his way into a meeting. Ozai goes one step further, and the tides of war begin to shift three years early.)
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ash on my hands and dirt at my feet by ficfaze
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms
18 Sep 2026
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Zuko was only eleven when he met a strange girl that his uncle had taken in.
Toph was only seven when her home was taken over, only to be whisked away to another nation.
And Iroh now had a tiny girl with jaded eyes under his care and protection, all for the dying wish of his late son.
In other words, a ward is adopted into the royal family of the Fire Nation. This changes everything but nothing at the same time.
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- Part 1 of ash and dirt
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Tim pulled out a notebook and clicked his favorite green pen. His mother would criticize him for making a project plan without doing a SWOT analysis first, but he figured he could get away with breaking corporate protocols for this particular project.
Tim’s 7 step plan to get Bruce to adopt Jason, he wrote with a flourish.
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Or, eight-year-old Tim hatches a plot to convince his neighbor to adopt the street kid he brought home with him and gets more than he bargained for in the process.
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Jason tries his luck stealing tires in Bludhaven. It doesn’t go any better.
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Zuko is dropped on the edge of the Earth Kingdom, burned, shorn, and banished. He's found again and again, and built up from ashes.
or, the earth kingdom takes a look at Zuko, asks “is anyone gonna raise that?” and doesn’t wait for an answer
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- Part 1 of It Takes a Village verse
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Chance Meeting by PitViperOfDoom
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
06 Jul 2017
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Shouto looked at him again, this time really looking, and noticed for the first time that the boy was wearing a hooded sweatshirt in All-Might’s colors. He almost wanted to laugh; wouldn’t Father curse at that, seeing an All-Might hoodie in a crowd of people spectating one of his fights.
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- Part 1 of Tododeku Week 2017
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Teenage Dreams And Other Illogical Things by HopeNight
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
08 Aug 2024
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Nedzu tasks Aizawa Shouta to investigate some oddities amongst the staff at Aldera Middle School. However, due to said oddities amongst the staff, it's unwise to slip Shouta in as a transfer teacher. Thanks to a temporary physical age regression quirk, Shouta is primed to go undercover as a student at Aldera with two objects in mind: figure out the discrepancies in the staff and keep the only Quirkless student at Aldera, Midoriya Izuku, safe.
Deeply unimpressed at having to be fourteen again, even physically, Shouta finds an unexpected kinship with the kid. While he tries to keep Midoriya safe and solve the cast, Shouta ends up rediscovering some things along the way as well. Whether it's setting a bully on the path of redemption or reigniting his love of heroics, Midoriya Izuku and Aizawa Shouta are about to change each other's lives for the better.
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Not A Hero by WhiteLilyLotus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
01 Nov 2022
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“How can someone do that to a child? Those injuries were worse than the work of some villains.”
Katsuki frowned.
He was the cause of those burns. And they were worse than what a villain would do?
But he wasn't a villain.
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- Part 1 of Ground Zero Agency
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After the Agni Kai, his father sends him away to be a soldier, to fight and die with the soldiers he spoke out to save.
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(M=violence & death)
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Zuko fails to impress the royal family when he's born and is shipped out to be trained as a court assassin. This goes south when he gets scouted by the Yuyan, and learns that his father's quick decision to label him as a non-bender may have been presumptive...
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The Dark What Now? by FromDustReturned, Nation_Ustria
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005)
14 Nov 2024
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What if Bruce Wayne was the Doctor, and the Robins were his companions?
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After his Agni Kai, Zuko flees the Fire Nation without Iroh or his crew. He finds himself stranded, alone, and injured in the Earth Kingdom when taken in and raised as a healer and farmer by an Earth Kingdom couple. He finds new ways to use his bending and to influence in the changing of the war with new understanding of himself, his bending, and the war. As someone with new perspectives and influence he is able to provide a greater understanding of being a teacher, warrior, and friend when meeting the gaang.
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Where Zuko gets to recover before using anger to protect himself when he is adopted by a nice Earth Kingdom family
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What if Zuko had been banished but Iroh wasn't there to go with him? What if Zuko was alone from the beginning, left to fend for himself and try and capture the Avatar all on his own? And how would that change his story and the stories of those around him?
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What if Zuko had gone into his banishment alone, without Iroh, a ship and a crew? What if, after failing to capture the Avatar, he finally gave up and joined the Gaang (and turned into their protective older brother)? And how would that change his story and the stories of those around him?
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Zuko Has A Cat (Or More Accurately, A Cat Has Zuko) by Stressball for MuffinLance
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
02 May 2020
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Instead of being exiled on a boat, Zuko is dropped off in the Earth Kingdom. Eventually a certain crazy old lady finds him, and he is subsequently adopted by her cat.
Based on an idea by MuffinLance
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It was a mission of revenge. There weren't supposed to be any survivors, but Chief Hakoda couldn't bring himself to kill the Fire Nation boy. Against his better judgment, he brought him home. A Zuko joins the Water Tribe story.
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Not All Kidnappings are Bad by Cdelphiki
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
17 Aug 2020
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While out on patrol one night, Bruce encounters a kidnapping attempt. A pretty routine night, unfortunately.
When the victim in question happens to be a 9-year-old Jason Todd, however, Bruce finds himself getting a little too attached to a child he just met. Was it okay to kidnap a child right off the street and keep him?
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is there a way back home? by dont_leaf_me_alone
Fandom Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Aug 2026
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A thirteen-year-old Fire Nation Prince winds up on a ship with the Chief of a minor village in the Southern Water Tribe.
Chaos ensues.
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Three days following Former Crown Prince Zuko’s banishment, a wooden ship named The Akhlut stumbles upon an unconscious body of a thirteen-year-old Fire Native.
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au in which a banished for good zuko ends up being hired by the beifongs to watch over their daughter- or, zuko and toph never took that field trip in canon so now she gets to hog him for three whole years.
(this is not an abandoned work. yes, it will be continued eventually. please stop asking already.)
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